postimpressionist
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a word derived from
postimpressionism.
postimpressionismnouna movement in painting in France at the end of the 19th century, begun by Cézanne and exemplified by Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Matisse, which rejected the naturalism and momentary effects of impressionism but adapted its use of pure colour to paint subjects with greater subjective emotion
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Later, they studied together in Jerusalem with the Moldavian painter Leonid Balaklav, whose postimpressionist style influenced them both.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
She smiles when I mention the French postimpressionist.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2016
Mr. Taborn, an unusually matter-of-fact virtuoso, teases out structural affinities among free jazz, postimpressionist classical and electronic music, forging something uniquely his own.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2011
Adams' problem was to find a modernist vision in photography, one that corresponded to the postimpressionist avantgarde, whose works he had glimpsed at the San Francisco Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These and other artists of the interwar period were greatly influenced by the impressionist and postimpressionist painters in Paris and Munich, where they studied.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.